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What To Expect?

Have you wanted to control your eating habits? In today’s article, How I improved during my 25-day intermittent fasting. Is about my own experience with intermittent fasting. It’s become a popular technique that people use to regulate their weight and to combat inflammation. For me, I took on this challenge to help with my acid reflux and overall discipline with food, especially in the evening or when I’m bored. I hope you enjoy my experience.

What Is Intermittent Fasting?

What I Learned

My journey started off with the hope that this technique could help with my overall health but also the mental aspects of focus you gain from intermittent fasting. I believe I gained all of these outcomes suttlely over the weeks I did this challenge. My energy levels and focus in the morning on the 16th hour of fasting was astonshing. I once thought you couldn’t go without breakfast in the morning.

Now I’m completing a full workout and working at my computer without a care for food. Of course, there comes a point when it’s time to eat but that habit of always having to eat more than I should was slowly disappearing.

The nighttime snacks were gone and I genuinely didn’t care even if my partner was munching on my favourite chocolate. I surprised myself how easily I resisted.

The main learning point I could take from this challenge was I’m actually in control of my eating habits. Whereas I have lived a life where food has controlled me.

What Challenges I Faced

I would say I faced minimal challenges whilst intermittent fasting. I stopped eating after my last meal around 5 pm to 7 pm. After my evening meal, I was full and I kept myself hydrated to combat any hunger. I slept for 6 hours and upon waking I kept myself busy with exercise, school run and work from home. Sometimes I wanted to eat my breakfast sooner but that only came on a rest day where I wasn’t doing too much. Overall if you followed that schedule I think It would be easy for any adult to do.

What I Improved On

The improvement I have made not only helped with my weight but also my mental wellbeing too. My top 5 are just below.

Weight loss
A reduction in food cravings
Morning focus elevated
No more acid reflux
Increase in energy

All my improvements weren’t stand out improvements but I could definitely feel and see in myself that intermittent fasting definitely improved my body and mind.

How Intermittent Fasting Can Benefit Your Life

Our body and mind were built not for the on-demand food we have at our disposal like never before. It was built to go days without eating while we looked for our next food source.

To be able to stay energised and mentally focussed we became more energised to fulfil the task of hunting for our prey. This is still part of everyone and when we tap into it. We can find our most energised and focussed self.

So if you’re permitted to fast in any way based on your health. I would highly recommend going back in time to live how our bodies were intended to. By giving our bodies time to digest our food and tap into energy resources through intermittent fasting.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, How I improved during my 25-day intermittent fasting. It was an easy challenge to do but a worthwhile one. I intend to carry this on for the forcible future as long as it helps my minds focus, makes me happy and gives me the energy I desire.

Hi, I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

What To Expect?

Have you ever wanted to write more consistently? In today’s article, how I improved during my 19 days writing challenge. Is one of my many challenges I set myself each month. I will explain how I got on with the challenge, what I learnt and anything that can help you with improving your writing skills.

What I learned

How I Improved During My 19 Day Writing Challenge

I’ve been writing on and off with my blog post for over a year. My goal is to be disciplined with my output of the blog post so I don’t feel overwhelmed. With this in my mind, I decided that I wanted to be 2 months ahead of schedule with my writing. So I set myself a challenge of writing a blog post a day over 19 days.

This is a great system to have so that you are prepared in case of any emergency. I learned through this writing challenge that I have the capacity to write every day.

I also learned that writing isn’t a difficult task when planned the previous day. By preparing the main title, subheadings, keywords and research in advance. Made the whole writing experience enjoyable but also free-flowing.

I also enjoyed the whole experience. The joy of writing every day helped transform my mood and focus throughout the rest of the day.

What Challenges I faced

The challenge of writing every day came more towards the end. Around the 13th day where it became more of an effort to get started. Like any other habit, you’re trying to implement. There will come a point where the new exciting feeling wears off. That’s when you need to be disciplined with your routine.

Once I got started the enjoyment came immediately back.

Another challenge I faced was the lack of time I had to prepare for scientific research to back up my writing. This led to speedier research which was ok but lacked a full depth in what I could find.

Overall the challenges I faced was minimal and was a breeze to accomplish. (Very surprised)

How I Improved

Amazingly I felt my ability to write a full blog post a day became an easier proposition. Being able to write over thousand words felt too easy towards the 8th day. I had to hold myself back from writing more. I also noticed when I was checking through Grammarly and on my Yoest SE0. My level of writing went from an average of 76 to 84 by the end of the 19-day challenge.

Naturally, I improved my writing without much conscious thought. Subconsciously my mind must have been improving to be able to achieve that outcome.

How Writing Can Benefit Your Life

From achieving this writing challenge I would say there are many benefits writing can give you. Below are just a few of how I felt during and after the experience.

A focus that led me to a state of flow
An improvement in creativity and ideas
A feeling of happiness and positivity
A better understanding of what you think

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, how I improved during my 19 days writing challenge.

This was a great challenge to do. I thought it was going to be more difficult than expected. What really helped was the preparation beforehand of preparing the main title, subheadings and what keywords to use. Without this, the ability to just sit down and write would be more challenging.

For anyone who wants to make it a habit to write daily, improve their writing skills or get ahead with your writing schedule. I highly recommended the 19-day writing challenge for you.

A Final Word From The Future Mindset

When it comes to building mental strength. Challenging yourself is an important part of showing what you are capable of. Creating discomfort every day in life will always push you forward. It can be hard and challenging to do it alone. If you need help with consistently writing or creating discomfort in your own life contact me on adam@thefuturemindset

Hi I’m Adam